Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

Too true. Even HR employees at corporate levels are useless as tits on a fish. Good, smart, competent managers throughout Lowe's are rare indeed. Most are self-absorbed, controlling, immature, non-conceptual freak shows. Muppet rejects. Very good liars though, and con artists.

Lowe's doesn't have leaders, they only have followers. Stating with Marvin who follows what Home Depot does all they way down to the newest hired "Department Supervisor." All they do is follow.

We will never be number one when we are following number one.

As an LP/Safety manager with strong OPS experience, I was actually asked by our OPS ASM to explain the Dash 7 reports to him yesterday. He didn't even know he was supposed to go over it every month, keep a copy for a month, and didn't know what it all meant anyway. He's a nice enough guy, but he's been on the job quite a while now and has no clue. Not really his fault. He was never trained. So I went over it with him and explained it to him because it's not really his fault.

And I'm the one getting laid off.

I sure hope I can get him trained to Lowe's liking before my job ends on Feb 1. (Yup, that's sarcasm.)

This is so true everywhere in Lowe's. I went to an interview for a Sales Floor Manager position. As soon as I walked in the door and they saw me, they started looking down and would not give me eye contact. I look older than my age but I am over 40. I was not given a chance. The store manager and ASM were both in their 30's. I used to work at this particular store as a Department Manager but they did not listen to a single word I said. It was blatant age discrimination. They wonder why there are so many disgruntled employees. Hard working employees are blown off and they promote young from CSA to Service Manager within a year of getting a job at Lowe's. No management experience but they are promoted. They just walk around looking lost. It is the store management that needs to be gutted and put people in that actually look at skills and value that an employee adds to the store for promotions, etc. Listen to ideas...yes even to ideas of those over 40. I am embarassed that I work for Lowe's but I need the job.

I dealt with a regional manager and management team that loved to throw tantrums and merchandise. They wouldn’t schedule anyone and when you’d come in after nobody had been in the department for 2 days. They’d have shooing carts full of mixed items they wanted zoned, Irps worked by 10, top stock straightened for inventory that was upcoming....

It took a while and they got terminated, At the time I needed the job. They didn’t promote those that worked because they were hard to replace so they attempted to make them feel there was no other option but to do as they said.

First chance I got I quit and like to watch the car crash in my rear view mirror. They still haven’t learned. Good associates are a commodity.